On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:36:45PM -0700, Alan Amaya wrote: > Think about how hatefully you might write a program to wrap combining > characters to 80 columns, or how hateful you might find writing that program > to be.
In fact Donald Knuth has an elegant solution to the much more difficult problem of paragraph justification. He describes the algorithm in detail in his book Digital Typography. Hatefully, though, no one uses it except for TeX. Walt
